Triple

T11576971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Watch on the Rhine E274531 entity
Predicate director P255 FINISHED
Object Herman Shumlin
Herman Shumlin was an American theater and film director best known for his work on politically charged Broadway plays and their screen adaptations in the mid-20th century.
E934490 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Herman Shumlin | Statement: [Watch on the Rhine, director, Herman Shumlin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Shumlin
Context triple: [Watch on the Rhine, director, Herman Shumlin]
  • A. Paul M. Nakasone
    Paul M. Nakasone is a United States Army general and prominent intelligence leader who has served as the head of U.S. cyber and signals intelligence operations.
  • B. Dan Boren
    Dan Boren is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, known for his centrist Democratic positions and service in a prominent political family.
  • C. Dean Alvord
    Dean Alvord was an early 20th-century real estate developer known for creating upscale, planned residential communities in Brooklyn, New York.
  • D. Sam Brownback
    Sam Brownback is an American Republican politician and former governor of Kansas who also served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
  • E. John H. Van Buskirk
    John H. Van Buskirk was an individual buried at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey, likely a local resident or figure of regional historical significance.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Herman Shumlin
Triple: [Watch on the Rhine, director, Herman Shumlin]
Generated description
Herman Shumlin was an American theater and film director best known for his work on politically charged Broadway plays and their screen adaptations in the mid-20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herman Shumlin
Target entity description: Herman Shumlin was an American theater and film director best known for his work on politically charged Broadway plays and their screen adaptations in the mid-20th century.
  • A. Paul M. Nakasone
    Paul M. Nakasone is a United States Army general and prominent intelligence leader who has served as the head of U.S. cyber and signals intelligence operations.
  • B. Dan Boren
    Dan Boren is an American politician and former U.S. Representative from Oklahoma, known for his centrist Democratic positions and service in a prominent political family.
  • C. Dean Alvord
    Dean Alvord was an early 20th-century real estate developer known for creating upscale, planned residential communities in Brooklyn, New York.
  • D. Sam Brownback
    Sam Brownback is an American Republican politician and former governor of Kansas who also served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
  • E. John H. Van Buskirk
    John H. Van Buskirk was an individual buried at Hackensack Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey, likely a local resident or figure of regional historical significance.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d6aae5ac3c81908d2b0a3a665665b2 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d89049721081909278adfada668ef9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e713f7ca4c81908f29143df420fd71 completed April 21, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e720f9a8588190aa766d2e1628207a completed April 21, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e72315dda08190996aa84587c5fc80 completed April 21, 2026, 7:11 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:38 p.m.